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Human impact on mountains

Title
Human impact on mountains / edited by Nigel J.R. Allan, Gregory W. Knapp, Christoph Stadel.
Publication
Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Allan, Nigel J. R.
  • Knapp, Gregory W.
  • Stadel, Christoph.
Description
xii, 308 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Mountains
  • Mountain people
  • mountains (landforms)
  • Mountain people
  • Mountains
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Gebirge
  • Lebensraum
  • Biosphäre
  • Mensch
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 277-297.
Contents
Study of mountain lands and peoples : a critical overview / Kenneth Hewitt -- High mountains as human habitat / Erwin F. Groetzbach -- Comparative geography of high mountains of the world in the view of landscape ecology : a development of three and a half decades of research and organization / Carl Troll -- Mountain agronomy in Ethiopia, Nepal and Pakistan / Peter T.S. Whiteman -- Mountain people and monastics in Kumaon Himalaya, India / Agehananda Bharati -- Transhumance in European and American mountains / Gisbert Rinschede -- Importance, status and structure of almwirtschaft in the Alps / Hugo Penz -- Traditional agricultural strategies in the hill lands of tropical America / Stephen B. Brush -- Future value of the "verticality" concept : implications and possible applications in the Andes / Sylvia H. Forman -- Mapping of mountain hazards in Nepal / Jack D. Ives -- Simulation models of Andean adaptability and change / R. Brooke Thomas -- Problems of land use and recent settlement : Thailand's highland-lowland transition zone / Harald Uhlig.
ISBN
  • 9780847674596
  • 0847674592
  • 0847677559
  • 9780847677559
  • 0847674592 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
86031471
OCLC
  • ocm16006201
  • 16006201
  • SCSB-1707920
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library